Harry Potter is Anti-Woman/Different Values of Snape

[Miles]

No: HPFGUIDX 181100

sistermagpie wrote:
> Tonks' finding Harry on the train just is not cool no matter how she
> did it. Even if there really were 1000 students, which there never are
> in canon, whatever JKR said in that one interview. (She also said "Oh
> dear, maths" in an interview, and that's more proved in canon.)

Miles, from deep lurkdom:

GoF, ch23 The Yule Ball:
"The house tables had vanished; instead, there were about a hundred small, 
lantern-lit ones, each seating about a dozen people."

That makes roughly 1,200 people at the ball, and we know of only few dozen 
guests from the other schools and the Ministry. And we know, that not all 
students attended the ball. Well, 1,000 students in Hogwarts seems to be a 
conservative estimation, if you only look at this piece of canon.

Alas, JKR contradicts herself not only once, so if you ask me - there is no 
reliable canon about the number of students, but Harry would have to be 
blind and dumb not to recognize as much as 1,000 students around him, or the 
magic of Hogwarts is much more impressive than we know of...

Miles, returning to his often failing attempt to at least read the list ;)